Encounters · No. 2 The House That Light Built Carl Larsson painted the same home, the same wife, the same children, hundreds of times. The result was not repetition. It was an argument — about beauty, about Sweden, about what a life is allowed to look like. By Bergotte There is a house in Sundborn,Continue reading “Carl Larsson”
Author Archives: My World of Interiors
The City That Comes Back to Itself
The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Paris, and why September is the only month that matters There is a particular quality of light in Paris in late August that travel writing has never quite managed to capture, perhapsContinue reading “The City That Comes Back to Itself”
The Reel Argument: Carl Theodor Dreyer
By Bergotte There is a filmmaker most people have never seen whose work contains some of the most powerful images in the history of cinema, and his name is Carl Theodor Dreyer. He made fewer than a dozen surviving features across forty years, worked in almost complete opposition to every commercial instinct the film industryContinue reading “The Reel Argument: Carl Theodor Dreyer”
The Human Condition According to Pushkin
By Bergotte To understand Russian literature is, in the end, to understand Pushkin — which is to say that it cannot be fully done from the outside. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is the writer whom every Russian author who followed him claimed as a father, a standard, and an impossibility: the source from which a wholeContinue reading “The Human Condition According to Pushkin”
Poul Henningsen
Makers & Rooms — Essay I The Light He Couldn’t Stop Arguing About Poul Henningsen designed the most beloved lamp in the world. He also wrote cabaret songs, picked fights with the bourgeoisie, and fled to Sweden ahead of the Gestapo. The lamp was almost the least interesting thing about him. By Bergotte There isContinue reading “Poul Henningsen”
The Cars
Essay · Music & Culture The Glamour of Disconnection The Cars made music about emotional unavailability and called it pop, which was either a very sophisticated joke or the most honest thing anyone did in the late 1970s, depending on how you felt about the decade. The answer is that it was both, and theContinue reading “The Cars”
The Self That Must Be Chosen: Who We Are According to Søren Kierkegaard
He wrote under false names, spoke in riddles, and refused to give answers. He died at forty-two having produced, in a little over a decade, the most searching account of what it means to be a human being that Western philosophy has ever attempted. Kierkegaard did not want to make things easy for you. HeContinue reading “The Self That Must Be Chosen: Who We Are According to Søren Kierkegaard”
Sophie Calle
Encounters · No. 1 The Art of Following Someone Sophie Calle has spent forty years turning other people’s lives — and her own grief — into something that looks, uncomfortably, like art. By Bergotte In January 1980, Sophie Calle followed a stranger to Venice. She had met him briefly at a party in Paris, notContinue reading “Sophie Calle”
Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Hungary’s Wine Villages
Hungary’s wine regions are among Europe’s best-kept secrets. Beyond Budapest, the hills of Tokaj and Eger are dotted with vineyards, baroque towns, and family-run cellars. Instead of polished resorts, travellers here are welcomed into small pensions, rustic guesthouses, and vineyard inns where tasting a glass of local Furmint or Egri Bikavér feels like slipping intoContinue reading “Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Hungary’s Wine Villages”
Who Are You at the Dinner Table? The Invite — Review
Director: Olivia WildeScreenplay: Rashida Jones and Will McCormackStarring: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, Edward NortonYear: 2026Country: United StatesGenre: Comedy-drama / chamber comedyRunning time: 107 minutesBased on: Cesc Gay’s Sentimental (2020), released internationally as The People UpstairsRating: ★★★★☆ What It Is Joe and Angela are a long-married San Francisco couple whose relationship has calcified intoContinue reading “Who Are You at the Dinner Table? The Invite — Review”
